The Lascaux rug

With such an iconic and reminiscent set, the Parisian painter – rug editor invites to a reflection on the very first artistic gesture. Thus, the emotion emerging from these animal forms, so typical of parietal art, is spreading. The Lascaux rug evokes the enjoyment of an uncertain prehistoric quest for comfort that makes sense for all of us

By reproducing the cave’s frescoes, the Lascaux rug links together two different stories: one about the origins of the rug, that item covering our floors, and the other about the first artistic gesture of humanity. To protect the mesmerizing emotion which emanates from them, the images are woven in natural, undyed wool. The traditional weaving of Gordes knots also participates to bring out the authenticity of this creation.

The carpet is the ultimate item of comfort and softness that soothes the ground’s hardness. This specific one is conceived as an answer to prehistorical terrors. Its designer indeed explains that the first painters believed in the existence of extremely hostile telluric powers, underground forces that men had to face and control in order to survive them. They would burst out of the bowels of the earth, just as the painted animals arise on the walls of Lascaux. Transposing these paintings on a rug makes a reference to this first artistic necessity of representing and therefore overcoming these primitive dreads.